1. Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals and country assessments
Doc.A6465/17/10
Ag.no.16 A65 country manuals and country assessments
Working Group on Article 64 and Article 65 of the Staff Regulations
Luxembourg 28th and 29th March 2017

2. Content of this presentation
Follow up to discussion at A6465WG 2015
Progress report with detailed country manuals
Revised publication proposal
Next steps

3. Reminder of previous discussions
Agreement on country manual structure (2011 WG)
National data on public sector staff numbers
Description of national remuneration system (gross salary components)
Description of statutory deductions (personal income tax, social security, occupation pension contribution, etc.)
Example calculation from basic salary to gross salary to net salary
Iterative drafting process requiring collaboration from you
22 drafts presented at 2015 WG

4. Progress with country manuals - situation at March 2017
Sample of 11
Other Member States
Approved
BE, DE, FR, IT, NL, AT, PL, UK
CY, PT 10
Approval requested
IE, HU, MT 3
Ongoing
ES, LU
BG, CZ 4
Comments requested SE
DK, EL, RO, SI 5
Work started
EE, HR, LV, LT, SK, FI 6

5. Country assessments
Inspired from the approach used by ECP team for price statistics, and by other domains
Agreed in 2016 WG
Short summary document:
Validation date for detailed inventory
Brief organisational description (main sources)
Review of most recent SRQ submission
Comments about data quality on staff numbers
Comments about data quality on Gross salary
Comments about data quality on statutory deductions
Other quality action points, if any

6. Statistics Explained – Civil Servants Remuneration
Country assessments
Available for 9 countries in (doc.A6465/17/10)
Proposal:
Publish Country Assessments via
Statistics Explained – Civil Servants Remuneration
within Eurostat's website (cf. item 14.1 of agenda.

7. Country assessments
Any remarks or questions? Q: Do you agree with the dissemination of the Country Assessments via Statistics Explained?